TRILOGY

The endles enigma The track starts with a creepy moog and then piano playing, fitting easily as music to a horror movie. Great. The the Hammond comes inn and the track gets heavier before the melodic part comes with a good vocal from Lake and lovely organ by Emerson. A great atmospheric part. The short instrumental part following it is marvelous, with great piano by Keith that concludes the number. 5 stars

The endles enigma (part two) An upbeat melodic instrumental with marvelous work from Emerson. Lake´s vocals are also great. This is essentially a studio reworking of Promenade, but it´s great. 5 stars

Fugue A piano instrumental. Very jazzy, but playful. And lots of fine playing as well. 5 stars

Fro,m the beginning Lake on acoustic guitar. Fine. An atmospheric ballad with great vocals. The melody is great as well. Lake even plays a solo on electric guitar. Even Emerson´s concluding moog solo is up to the point and accessible. 5 stars

The sheriff An organ driven vocal track. Let´s say the melody is just average, but the playing is great as always. Nice drumming from Palmer. The track with somewhat of a country flavour reminds me (just in melody of course, of the marvelous Tumbleweed connection by Elton John). The fast boogie woogie piano part is nice. Still a filler, though. 3 stars

Hoedown (taken from rodeo) Great work on this one. Emerson plays a catchy melody (I believe it is an Irish traditional) on organ and Lake with Palmer do their usual stuff with usual success. Especially Palmer´s drumming is awesome. The track is very poverful and also adequatly rocking. Even the moog parts are digestable. 5 stars

Trilogy After the atmosphridc intro provided by Emerson on piano, Lake sings another ballad in a sweet melancholic tone. I even like the fast part with Emerson´s moog playing. Then Lake sings again a bit and another synth passage follows, with exceptional work from Palmer as well as Lake. (Well, the are perfect most of the time in terms of playing. It´s the songwriting that stinks quite a few times a record). Not on this one, though. Emerson´s bluesy moog outro is really funny. In a good way. 5 stars

Living sin A hilarious sorta-rocker with Lake sounding as John Entwistle singing Boris the spider. The chorus is better. I like the "dirty" Hammond sound. Great drumming by Palmer again. 3.5

Abaddon´s bolero Really. A great record and then comes this... What´s the purpose of mostly overplaying one motif on the Hammond and all kinds of synths? 1 star

Overal rating: 4 STARS

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